INQ-270 | Myth, Philosophy, and Nature

Full Title: Myth, Philosophy, and Nature

Topic Description:

This course will look at different ways in which people have approached the natural world, ranging from mythological accounts of the world and its origins to rationalistic attempts to understand natural processes in early Greek philosophy and in the tradition of thought it inspired. We will consider what mythological approaches to the world have in common with more rationalistic approaches developed in the western world, and how they differ, as well as ways in which contemporary understandings of the world differ from views articulated in earlier modes of thought.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2010